[Python-ideas] Definition Symmetry

[Jason Keene]

In a way they do the same thing, they both create an object
(function/class) from a suite and assign it to the name given after the
keyword (def/class).  Sure they do totally different things with the suite
in creating the object, but in essence it's a name assignment.

On Thursday, January 31, 2013, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On 01/02/13 03:35, Jason Keene wrote:
>
>> Why do function definitions require parens?
>>
>>  class MyClass:
>>>>>
>>>> ...     pass
>> ...
>>
>>> def my_func:
>>>>>
>>>>    File "<stdin>", line 1
>>      def my_func:
>>                 ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>
>> This seems to me to break a symmetry with class definitions.
>>
>
> Why do you think that class definitions and function definitions
> should be symmetrical?
>
>
>
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> Steven
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